Vice and Vision: Magnifying Sergio Martino for The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (2013) Kat Ellinger June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani The sequence when Barbara explodes on the glass body is like the flashback in The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh. It’s a scene that really struck me and we tried to magnify it – not redo it because there’s no point,...
The Curious Tale of Psychedelic Alice: Alice in Acidland (1969) and Curious Alice (1971) Kat Ellinger March 2018 Alice in Wonderland The reason why a socially awkward, conservative Anglican Deacon and Oxford mathematician became a leading pop cultural icon in the swinging sixties is one of the most curious stories surrounding Alice in Wonder...
This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver, José Mojica Marins, 1967) Kat Ellinger March 2017 Love Letters: 1967 Coffin Joe: cultural icon, counter-cultural statement, sadistic lord of carnival horror. Once seen, rarely forgotten, often underappreciated, Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe is a loose English translation) was the cre...
